Beamish to take action?

There was a story in the Irish Examiner this morning (the paper edition - not the online one) which says that "Beamish and Crawford has announced a revamp for a dilapidated part of its historic corporate headquarters..."

The budget for the project is 50,000 Euro according to the article. This makes me extremely dubious about just how much Beamish are going to do. In my meeting with Beamish's representatives in August, they told me that it would cost over 70,000 Euro just to erect scaffolding on the site!

Still, scaffolding will be visible on the site from tomorrow apparantly so we'll see soon enough just how serious Beamish are.

Hopefully my scepticism is misplaced and we will see significant improvements on this site now.

Public representatives involvement

In order to continue the pressure on Beamish and Crawford I logged onto the websites of all the main Irish political parties and got the contact details of all our local representatives.

I sent them all a quick mail outlining the purpose of this site and asking for help to get Beamish clean up their site.

Most of the public reps didn't respond but of those who did I was delighted with most of their responses.

In particular, Simon Coveney's (FG) office gave me some very useful contacts to pursue; Dan Boyle (Green Party) promised to write to Beamish and the corporation; Senator John Minihan (PD) alerted me to the Derelict sites and Dangerous structures acts; Ciaran Lynch (Labour) was a great help getting the media involved in this project; and Fergal Dennehy (FF) helped with research into planning applications.

Damien Wallace (FF) and Batt O'Keeffe (FF) also contacted me to say they had written to 'the relevant department in City Hall' and Beamish respectively on this issue.

Maybe some of this exposure will help push the issue of the buildings up Beamish's priority list now!